Mr. Aidan Butler:

It is a big divide. I was telling Jackie before coming in that I remember meeting Charley Pride when he came over to play the concert hall. He said he could play four venues in Galway, Limerick, Cork or whatever and fill them out three nights in a row but could not even get himself arrested in Dublin. When I went to the concert hall that night, it was full downstairs and there was a smattering upstairs. Dublin-based radio stations like FM104 and even RTÉ have to do it for commercial reasons. They have 1.5 million listeners in one area. Do they put on something where they know the first thing people will do is hit the button? I watch my sons do it in the car, screaming at them. Five seconds of a song and they are pressing buttons like nobody’s business.